Monster Mash

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"The zombies were having fun The party had just begun The guests included Wolf Man Dracula and his son The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, the Crypt-Kicker Five"

This is prevalent in a setting where the heroes live on World of Weirdness as part of a Fantasy Kitchen Sink with a sprawling Crossover Cosmology, especially if they themselves are supernatural. The creatures, rather than become shut-ins, never leaving their designated niche or dark corner of the world... socialize. The Vampires and Werewolves, though antagonistic, agree to hold up a mutual Masquerade against humans. Fairies and ghosts work together to scare local homeowners. And the wizards work with all of them to Save Both Worlds.

This is a common subtrope of Cast of Expies, where many characters in a specific work are lifted from earlier works.

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On a personal level, individuals of these groups might form loose bands (of Player Characters, usually) that work towards common goals, hang out, or terrorize humans for fun and profit. Or, if the setting permits, are all in on a secret, ancient conspiracy to control, manipulate, or convert humanity, eventually taking over and enslaving us all! Bla-hahahaha!

Named after a song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers (quoted above) in 1962 that became famous after being played on Dr. Demento's show; the song was later the basis for a mid-1990s comedy-horror musical titled Monster Mash: The Movie which starred Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. Not to be confused with Monster Munch.

Examples:

This old Pepsi Halloween commercial features Frankenstein's monster bringing Pepsi and Doritos to a party of monsters hosted by Dracula.

2017/2018 commercials for Spectrum (a cable provider in the eastern United States) feature a group of creatures who try to live normal lives...except they constantly run into problems with their satellite television. So far, we've seen a demon, a mad scientist, a mummy, husband and wife vampires, a werewolf, the Grim Reaper, and even a possessed ventriloquist's dummy.

Anime & Manga

Magical Pokaan has a vampire, a werewolf, a witch and a Robot Girl as flatmates. And they're Cute Monster Girls, to boot. They also have a caretaker of sorts — an invisible ghost named Cammy. In one of the special episodes, she appears as a nurse wrapped in bandages, so possibly invoking The Mummy or The Invisible Man.

Mahou Sensei Negima! has a vampire, a Cute Ghost Girl, a Robot Girl, and a half-bird demon in Negi's class, as well as a half-dog demon as his closest male friend. As of Chapter 294 you can add another half-demon and a demon.

The Punk Hazard arc adds a new roster of monsters: Centaurs, satyrs, dragons, a harpy and a Blob Monster.

Princess Resurrection has vampires, werewolves, robot girls and a demonic princess as the main cast. Most of the above are living in the same house.

With a name like Monster Soul, one would say it's about oh um...monsters? =P

Legendz is a Mons series where all the creatures are based on monsters of folklore, myth, and urban legend.

Cowa! is set in a world where humans, monsters and Petting Zoo People coexist. The main characters are a half vampire/half koala-man hybrid, a shapeshifting ghost, another creature that resembles Gillman and a human sumo wrestler.

in Hellsing, Millennium — the bad guys — are a Nazi half-vampire army whose leadership includes a cyborg, a Mad Scientist, a werewolf, a catboy with quantum-related powers, a Master of Illusion witch and a magical sharpshooter. Dracula is there too, but he's the good guy.

Kaibutsu-kun, another one of Fujiko Fujio's works, is about a young shapeshifting prince accompanied by Dracula, Frankenstein (here called Franken), and Wolfman living out in the human world and meeting other monsters.

In Dragon Ball Goku and his friends had to fight the Fortuneteller's champions, which consisted of a vampire, an invisible man, a mummy, a devil and a ghost (actually Grandpa Goku's spirit).

GeGeGe no Kitarō, in addition to featuring the most known Yokai of folklore plus "Mizuki-original" Yokai, features the classical monsters you would expect (such as Dracula -second in command- Frankenstein, a Werewolf, and a Witch as the most recurring ones, plus Backbeard, who is partially based in Bugbear), known as "The Western Youkai" in the Great Youkai War arc in both the original manga and its anime adaptations almost religiously in some way or another, though in the third anime it was made into a movie, it was loosely adapted in the fourth, and the sixth features Backbeard and a new set of Western Yokai (a willfully-shapeshifting Werewolf, an amalgamation of Dr. Frankenstein with the monster -as a Dual Mode-, Carmilla -yes, because she even predates Dracula in date of origin-, and a beautiful witch -and the sister of this arc's deuteragonist-) and it's a full-fledged shonen anime arc in terms of length at 11 episodes, as well in the Youkai World Rally in both the manga and some of the anime (barring the fourth, and as a theme park video for the fifth).

Card Games

While Magic: The Gathering has always had its share of vampires, ghosts, zombies, and other things that go bump in the night, the Innistrad block takes place on a plane directly inspired by Gothic Horror.

Monsters Party: Voodoo Madness an internationally distributed card game made by Costa Ricans is based on the Monster Mash motif including the basic classic monsters like a Vampire Girl, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy, a Zombie and a were-wolf.

Smash Up featured, as one of its numerous expansions, the very appropriately named Monster Smash, starring Werewolves, Vampires, Mad Scientists (guest starring Frankenstein's Monster and Igor), and Giant Ants as new factions. The base game already had Aliens and Zombies, and other expansions added in Ghosts, Kaiju, Dragons and Innsmouth's Fish People inhabitants.

The original Nick Fury's Howling Commandos featured a werewolf, a half-vampire and half-werewolf, a mummy, a clone of the Frankenstein monster, a gorilla with a human brain, and a zombie. Brother Voodoo and Satanna also join in on the fun. These are just the main, active members; the Howlers are indicated to employ just about every monster in the Marvel universe, including Lilith, daughter of Dracula, and both Abominable Snowmen (the cursed prospector and the representative of an entire yeti species, of course). A Werewolf by Night letter column featured a fan post in which the author made a joke about a Nick Fury/Jack Russell team-up called "Sgt. Furry and His Growling Commandos". Funny how that joke later became reality, in some sense of the word: Nick Fury actually never appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos; it was more a Mythology Gag name and a pun on the monstrous nature of the team.

The Secret Wars (2015) event features the title Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos, which is made up of Shiklah, Werewolf by Night, N'Kantu the Living Mummy, the Invisible Man, Frankenstein's Monster, Man-Thing, and Marcus the minotaur with a symbiote trying to overthrow Dracula.

The group known as the Legion of Monsters has also gone through several incarnations:

The name was first used as the title of a 70s comic and featured swamp monster Man-Thing, demon Ghost Rider, vampire Morbius, and Werewolf by Night. This group didn't exactly work together yet and mostly just fought each other.

The name made a comeback with the new Legion of Monsters introduced in the 2010s, in which every original member but Ghost Rider returns, in addition to N'Kantu the Living Mummy, gillman Manphibian, Mole Men-like Moloids, classic Marvel monster Orggo, and The Punisher as a Frankenstein's Monster.

A later version of the Legion of Monsters appeared in Daredevil and featured Satanna, N'Kantu, Werewolf by Night, the original Frankenstein's Monster, and the zombie Simon Garth. The term "Monster Mash" is even used to describe them in the recap page of Daredevil #33.

In Spider Island 2, a tie-in to Secret Wars III, Agent Venom turns the spider versions of Captain America into a werewolf, Captain Marvel into a vampire, Hulk into a lizardman, and Iron Man into a Green Goblin to free them from Spider Queen's control

In a parody one-shot story Illegal Aliens (not related in any way to the book of the same name), a group of underemployed monsters from classic Universal Studios films forms an alliance to wipe out new amazingly popular alien creatures, because they took away their jobs in the movie industry. The comic ends with all monsters being smashed by... Godzilla.

The eponymous rock band in the DCU comic Scare Tactics had a vampire lead singer, a werewolf on lead guitar, a snake-boy on bass guitar, and a walking pile of sludge for a drummer.

DC also had several groups under the name The Creature Commandos: the first group (an extreme experiment in psychological warfare during World War II) was made up of Lt. Matthew Shrieve (normal), Warren Griffith (Werewolf), Sgt. Vincent Velcro (Vampire), Pvt. Elliot "Lucky" Taylor (Frankenstein's monster) and Dr. Myrra Rhodes (Medusa). They often teamed up with fellow Weird War Tales headliner GI Robot. Of some note is the fact that though Shrieve was "normal", he was quite explicitly the worst of the bunch. A reboot in 2000 also featured a gillman, and a new crew introduced in 2003 and never seen again finally added a mummy.

In the Flashpoint timeline, the equivalent group is headed by the Frankenstein monster himself, with Velcoro as the vampire (the spelling of his name changes in modern versions), Griffith as the werewolf, and Nina Mazursky as a gillwoman. Lt. Shrieve fights alongside them in the war.

The Event Horizon clique that goes by the "Corpse Corps" from Superboy and the Ravers includes a vampire, a green alien who has been stitched together and reanimated Frankenstien's monster style, a girl who is a ghost or spirit of some type, a walking skeleton and a short extraterrestrial zombie even before they recruited Half-life, a greaser who got age stopped as a teen in the '50s when a spaceship horribly mangled him and left over half his body as transparent oozing green down to the bone.

Urban Monsters stars a fishman, a zombie, a satyr, and a sasquatch, in a world with no apparent Masquerade.

This also fills out the rest of the cast of the Slave Labor Graphics comic (which ran also in Disney Adventures) called Little Gloomy (alternately titled "The Super Scary Monster Show")

The titular Monster Plus is a one-man Monster Mash, being a vampire werewolf mummy zombie Frankenstein's Monster witch doctor. One of his teen sidekicks happens to be Kid Dracula (the other two are normal humans).

Used in the recently reprinted comic strip Number 13 in The Beano and in the one-off strip Phone-a-Fiend.

Fleetway comic strip Scream Inn and its later spinoff The Spooktacular 7 revolved around a vampiric innkeeper, a zombie maid, a witch, a ghost, a headless man, a skeleton, a devil and a talking spider.

"The baby" is a never-seen radioactive monster kept locked in the cellar.

Santa Versus Dracula features this as Dracula's main force which include his three vampire brides, a army of undead kids, a werewolf, Igor, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein's Monster and Mr. Hyde. He did have a witch in his group, but she annoys him so he sprays her with beer to make her melt.

Requiem Vampire Knight takes place in a hellish dimension populated by all sorts of monsters such as vampires, werewolves, ghouls, mummies, ogres, reptilians, twisted mutants and tortured ghosts among others with Dracula ruling this world as its Evil Overlord. Recent chapters also feature a titanic Frankenstein-like monster being created by mad scientists. The twist is that pretty much all of these monsters were humans that reincarnated in this afterlife in different forms according to their sins, except for the ghosts, who had the misfortune of being killed and victimized by evil people but still get trapped in Hell even if they are innocent, and they can only leave after they kill their tormentor.

Top Cow crossover Monster War featured Mr. Hyde, Count Dracula and Frakenstein's monster as the main villains trying to unleash Hell on Earth. Werewolves were also featured but as minor villains.

Werehog's Roommate by GothNebula stars Sonic the Werewolf Hedgehognote Can shapeshift into a wolf, is a werehog in normal form, Amy the Vegetarian Werewolf Hedgehog, Tails the Frankenstein's Fox, Knuckles the Ghost Echidna, Rouge the Witch Bat, Shadow the Werewolf Hedgehog, Silver the Zombie Hedgehog, Blaze the Mummy Cat, Espio the Poltergeist Chameleon, Scourge the Werehog, Sticks the Wendigo Badger, Nebula the Dhampyr Hedgehog, and Hex the Genie Cobra. And they all live in the Monster High-esque Monster City.

Hotel Transylvania. The main characters are Dracula and his daughter; their friends and guests include a mummy, a werewolf, Frankenstein, witches, an invisible man, a blob, and more. Justified by the title setting being, well, a hotel for monsters.

The groovy Rankin Bass film Mad Monster Party has Baron von Frankenstein inviting Dracula, the Werewolf, the Invisible Man, Quasimodo, Dr. Jekyll and the Creature from the Black Lagoon to his private island in order to announce his retirement and appoint his successor as head of the Worldwide Organization of Monsters. Tim Burton claims it as an influence on his later works. The film also has a prequel of sorts in Mad Mad Mad Monsters, which had Baron von Frankenstein inviting the other monsters to the wedding of his monster and his new bride.

In Frankenweenie, the children turn their pets into expies of various classic horror monsters: a vampire-cat, a kaiju-turtle, a werewolf-rat, a mummy-hamster, a bunch of gillman-like sea monkeys, an invisible fish, and of course the main character, a dog resurrected like Frankenstein's Monster.

The direct-to-video animated movie Monster Mash lives up to its name- Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman have to prove that they are still scary while going up against parodies of "modern" monsters: spaghetti-based FreddieDeSpaghetti, killer wind-up doll Chicky and the otherworldly Alien Eater.

Monster Family is about a family who are inflicted with a Becoming the Costume curse by Baba Yaga on the orders of Dracula, transforming them into a vampire mother, Frankenstein father, mummy daughter and werewolf son.

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School had Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy volunteer to teach at a school for monster girls, the students being a vampire named Sibella, a Frankenstein monster named Elsa Frankenteen, a werewolf named Winnie, a ghost named Phantasma, and a mummy named Tannis.

The film Van Helsing includes Dr. Frankenstein, his monster, Dracula, his brides, several werewolves, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and a certain hunchback thrown in for good measure. Van Helsing mentions having fought gargoyles and warlocks in the past, and a deleted scene features a gillman-like creature living in Dracula's castle. Made by Universal, all this was an attempt at doing a throwback to the Universal Monsters "shared universe", though it never went beyond the one film.

The Waxwork films do this, and also incorporate Real Life baddies like the Marquis de Sade. The second flick steps outside the horror genre to include a fantasy Evil Overlord, although horror characters remain in the majority.

I, Frankenstein has the Frankenstein monster getting mixed up in a war between gargoyles and demons.

The 1980 British horror film The Monster Club, which starred Vincent Price as a vampire named Eramus who takes a fictional incarnation of horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes with him to the titular club. He tells him stories about a hybrid monster's encounter with a Gold Digger, a son finding out that his father is a vampire, and a film director meeting a group of ghouls. The film ends with Eramus giving a speech on how Humans Are the Real Monsters, which impresses the patrons so much that Eramus' human guest is declared an honorary monster and club member.

The 1985 farce Transylvania 6-5000 has two tabloid reporters journey to Transylvania to seek out the truth behind reports of Frankenstein's monster roaming a town, and after some false starts they wind up encountering not only it but also The Igor and his similarly hunchbacked wife, a seductive female vampire, a Wolf Man, a swamp creature, and a Mad Scientist who is keeping all of them in check and also keeps a mummy on the premises of the local castle. Subverted in that they're mostly misfit humans the scientist is helping — "Frankenstein's monster" is a car accident victim rebuilt with what the scientist could afford due to corrupt officials, the "wolf man" has hypertrichosis, the "mummy" is an ugly woman recovering from extensive plastic surgery, the "swamp creature" is a contortionist, and the "vampire" is a lovesick woman who adopted the persona to compensate for insecurity. The "hunchbacks" have the postures they do because they're constantly subservient to others.

Literature

The Mercy Thompson series has both friendly and unfriendly fae, werewolves, vampires, witches, sorcerors and walkers (Native American shapeshifters) so far. Wizards, druids and angels are mentioned, and Charles' mother gave him Native American magic similiar to shamanism. The various species don't like each other — we are talking The Fair Folk and Always Chaotic Evil vamps whose best defector gleefully shoots and kicks the dog — but there are nastier things out in the night. Like demons or politicians.

Kitty Norville, likewise, features both friendly and unfriendly werewolves and vampires. As the ironically named main character is a werewolf, you'd expect most of the bloodsuckers to be villains, but she's allied to more than she's made enemies. The werewolf packs and nearest vampire families usually keep a cooperative connection.

The best example of a Monster Mash in this series is the latest book, Kitty's House of Horrors, where the premise is a reality show starring all the B-list celebrities who are or claim to be supernatural: Kitty the werewolf talk radio host, a werewolf pro wrestler, a were-seal state legislator, a TV medium and stage magician who are both the real thing, a vampire beauty pageant winner, and a psychic supernatural debunker TV show star.

And for those of you who haven't read the books, Nobby really does deserve a place on that list. He carries a card, signed by the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and a local midwife of some skill, stating that, on the balance of probability, Nobby really is a human being. That's all you really need to know about him.

Tales of MU initially appears to be based on this to most readers, though it is not exactly on a voluntary basis - the Wizarding School, Magisterius University, has graciously established a separate dorm for the non-humans and part-humans, supposedly to make them feel less pressured to conform to human ways but in actuality at least in part to keep the freaks out of sight. The characters' foibles, both personal and racial, make up a significant part of the series.

Clive Barker's short novel Cabal, later filmed as Nightbreed. The monsters live in Midian in Canada. In the book Clive Barker's Nightbreed Chronicles, Barker explains the origins of many of these monsters, indicating that they did not share a common origin. One monster had its origin as a mutant engineered by the Central Powers during World War I (reminiscent of the G-8 series, which often featured paranormal entities devised by Central Powers researchers) and another a person mutated by a meteor (similar to Doc Savage's foe Mo-Gwei, Vandal Savage, Meteor Man, and L?Île aux trente cercueils by Maurice LeBlanc).

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book not only features a boy raised by ghosts, but also an organisation called the Honour Guard consisting of a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy and some sort of djinn.

Kelley Armstrong wrote a novel with only werewolves. She then called the series Women of the Otherworld and included witches, demons, and other supernaturals to be able to not be stuck only writing about werewolves.

With the possible exception of Godzilla, anything on the list above is likely to be found drinking in Strangefellows in one Nightside book or another.

Kevin J. Anderson's Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. novels take place in the Unnatural Quarter, a neighborhood set aside for undead, fairy-tale beings, and other supernatural folk generated by or emerged in the wake of the Big Uneasy.

Forth from the gate burst a hundred thousand rabid narcs swinging bicycle chains and tire irons, followed by drooling divisions of pop-eyed changelings, deranged zombies and distempered werewolves. At their shoulders marched eight score heavily armored griffins, three thousand goose-stepping mummies, and a column of abominable snowmen on motorized bobsleds; at their flanks tramped six companies of slavering ghouls, eighty parched vampires in white tie, and the Phantom of the Opera. Above them the sky was blackened by the dark shapes of vicious pelicans, houseflies the size of two-car garages, and Rodan the Flying Monster. Through the portals streamed more foes of various forms and descriptions, including a six-legged diplodocus, the Loch Ness Monster, King Kong, Godzilla, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes, the Brain from Planet Arous, three different subphyla of giant insects, the Thing, It, She, Them, and the Blob. The great tumult of their charge could have waked the dead, were they not already bringing up the rear.

Live-Action TV

The BBC 3 show Being Human has a vampire, a werewolf and a female ghost as flatmates.

Big Bad Beetleborgs had a mummy, a vampire, a frankenstein-style monster, a group of pixies, a ghoul, a living statue, and a "phantasm" all sharing a haunted house. Surprisingly, while they were real, the heroes and villains of the show were not: the Beetleborg powers were pulled out of the world of fiction by a spell the phantasm cast, and the villains were also pulled out of that world as a Gone Horribly Wrong side effect.

In Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Adam attempts to create an alliance between vampires and demons to fight humans.

Giles: ...And yet you say that the, the vampire went to the demon's aid. The two of them were working as a team? Buffy: Everything except giving each other little pats on the behind.

Buffy's own group of friends is a bit like a monster mash, too. There are Slayers (Buffy and Faith), vampires (Angel and Spike), witches (Willow, Tara and Giles), a werewolf (Oz), an ex-demon (Anya), a demon (Clem), with a couple of normal humans thrown in the mix.

There was a short lived 70s TV series called Monster Squad (unrelated to the movie pictured above) that is too campy to be believed. About a wax museum security guard whose "Crime Computer" brings the replicas of Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and The Wolf Man to life. They Fight Crime! to make up for their namesakes' past misdeeds.

Kamen Rider Kiva has an overall horror theme, specifically based on the Universal Monsters. As a result, the villains are vampires and the main character is a Dhampir whose Rider powers come from a talking bat and include alternate forms based on a werewolf, gillman and a Frankenstein's Monster, as well as a base of operations which is a dragon bonded to the mold of a castle. The Movie introduces two villainous Riders with powers based off of demons and Yeti, as well as another monster race whose members include a Gorgon, a Mandragora, a Gargoyle and a Mummy.

Supernatural is a veritable Fantasy Kitchen Sink, but this trope is explicitly invoked in one episode during Season 4, "Monster Movie", where the Winchesters investigate killings apparently perpetrated by the famous silver-screen monsters (See header picture above) themselves. It turns out to be a Shapeshifter who specifically tries to emulate them. The entire episode is a Shout-Out to classic horror movies.

If it had lasted long enough, they might have gotten mummies and a robot. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (original version, also produced by Dan Curtis) made up for the lack.

The 1970s Canadian Saturday Morning children's show The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein is basically this, with a Mad Scientist Dracula expy named Count von Frightenstein (He's supposed to be the 13th son of Dracula) and his sidekick, Igor, their incapacitated Frankenstein Monster expy named "Brucie" (which they could never revive) and a host of other kooky, classic-horror-themed characters note like a goofy old witch with a spoof cooking show segment, goofy furry monsters & a sea serpent, a creepy old Librarian who tells innocuous folk tales & nursery rhymes, real-life physicist/mathematician Julius Sumner Miller in Mad Scientist mode with Mister Wizard-like demonstrations, a coolWolfman Jack-like radio D.J. playing actual popular hits of the day and a bunch of other stuff. And Vincent Price spouting spooky poetry. Just because..

In 1973 the all-female dance troupe Pan's People made a video to the original song in which they dressed as Cute Monster Girl versions of a vampire, a bat, a mummy, King Kong and an alien. Only one of these monsters was mentioned in the song, but top marks for originality.

Paul and Storm's "Lame Monster Party", which parodies the theme (but not the tune) of "Monster Mash".

The spoken preamble to "A Gorey Demise", by Creature Feature, is a group of undead monsters having a dinner party.

Ookla the Mok's "Bride of the Wolfman" starts out with the Wolf Man angsting about how he feels unloved. Then the mummy comes to cheer him up. Dracula and Frankenstein are mentioned as mutual acquaintances.

Buck Owens had a 1974 single called "(It's a) Monster's Holiday" (no relation to the Bobby "Boris" Pickett Christmas tune mentioned above). Incidentally, it was one of the last songs to feature the talents of Don Rich, who died in a motorcycle accident shortly after this song was recorded:

Frankenstein was first in line And the Wolf Man came up next Dracula was doing his stuff Breathing down my neck...

China Anne McClain's music video "Calling All The Monsters" features all sorts of monsters.

On Halloween 2013, Megadethperformed for Jimmy Kimmel as classic monsters: Dave Mustaine hid all his hair under Frankenstein's head, bassist David Ellefson was a werewolf, Chris Broderick dressed as the Phantom of the Opera (though he removed the mask fairly early) and drummer Shawn Drover became Dracula.

The pinball machine Monster Bash requires the player to gather the Universal Horror mainstays Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon so they can re-form their rock band.

Podcasts

The dimension-hopping Gemini arc of Sequinox takes the girls to a Gothic Horror world where they become the classic monsters. Summer's a Frankenstein, Autumn's a werewolf, Spring's an invisible woman, Winter's a gillman, and Vivaldi's the Phantom of the Opera. Later on they find that Ethan and his mother are vampires, and Harmony developed a Hyde-esque potion.

In the "9th Street Bridge" routine on his Revenge album, Bill Cosby describes going to the movies as a kid with his pal Old Weird Harold and seeing one particular film that had "Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Dracula, the Hunchback, the Mummy... everybody was in it." Slightly averted in that we don't know whether the monsters actually teamed up, since — despite sitting in the theater for several showings of the movie — Bill and Harold never got up from hiding on the floor to see what actually happened.

Tabletop Games

The World of Darkness: In bothversions of the WoD, PCs play any one of a number of horror movie mainstays, and at the behest of the Storyteller, can encounter and (most likely) try to kill each other.

By extension, After Sundown started as a homebrew fix to the World of Darkness tailored to allow players to actually play Monster Mash type games (the original WoD was specifically built to make crossover games a bad idea). After finishing the rules set, the author decided to strip out the IP for public domain stuff and make it a stand alone game.

In the Trail Of Cthulhu adventure book Shadows Over Filmland, the player characters have the opportunity to battle Captain Ersatz versions of Frankenstein ('Doctor Gravenhurst'), the Invisible Man ('the Non-Euclidean Man'), and Dracula (a vampiric dream-spirit of the historical Vlad the Impaler) in individual adventures. In the the adventure "The Preserve", all three are lured to an island where they can face off against their old foes, the player characters, in exchange for the Necronomicon.

Especially Ravenloft, the gothic horror setting. And even more so in "Masque of the Red Death", set in 19th century Earth, complete with stats for Dracula and Frankenstein.

The Mystara supplement Night Howlers, while it focused specifically on lycanthropes, had more than enough different strains of werebeast in it to constitute a Monster Mash.

This is basically the entire premise behind the game NightLife, which features a bewildering array of monsters (many of them usable as player characters) trying to maintain a common masquerade viz. a humanity that still has them horribly outnumbered while also keeping themselves both fed and sane.

Creature Feature, a supplement for the Chill RPG, may have been the first to do this for player characters. Unlike WoD or NightLife, it kept the monsters as inherently evil, and gave points for killing heroes and scaring the crap out of hapless human victims.

Big Eyes, Small Mouth had a sourcebook more or less revolving around this: "Cold Hands, Dark Hearts". In a twist rather like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, almost all modern monsters are actually 'watered down' descendents of the real big nasties who once dominated the world before being sealed away. Vampires, Ghosts, Oni (the descendents of humans who bred with demons), Nephelim (their angelic counterparts), several types of animal spirit (including Minotaurs and Tengu) and Revenents (basic "dead body walking" type monsters that could, among others, resemble zombies, liches, or Frankenstein's Monster) are some of the creatures covered. For an extra twist, these were your player races.

In chess, the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game was named by Tim Harding as the answer to the question, "If the Frankenstein Monster and Count Dracula were to sit down to a game of chess, what would happen?" This is an insanely unorthodox opening in which a White Knight fork forces Black to sacrifice a whole Rook. The December 1978 issue of Chess included a Frankenstein-Dracula game supposedly from a deleted chapter of Dracula (which followed the Real Life game of Hansen-Nunn, Students' Olympiad, Teesside 1974).

Theater

Older Than Radio: The Ghost Sonata (1907) includes a mummy, two vampires, a ghost, and a walking dead man.

House of Frankenstein by Martin Downing has this as its central premise. Dracula, the Wolfman, and the latest girl stalked by the Phantom of the Opera come to Dr. Frankenstein to have their problems solved by him. Hilarity Ensues. This is really the template for most of the scripts he's put out.

Theme Parks

Promotional material for the Disney Theme Parks during the Halloween season often features Mickey Mouse and his associates as classic monsters. Mickey as a vampire, Minnie as a witch, Donald Duck as a Wolf Duck or devil, and Goofy as a Frankenstein monster seem to be the most common.

An old discontinued toyline called Titanium 'MonstersOf Rock' was pretty much this as a rockband, with the members being a vampire, a werewolf, a Frankenstein monster, and a mummy..

Just add "the children of" right before the word "Dracula" in the above description of the trope and you have the basic premise of Monster High. For bonus points, the five monsters namechecked above, plus the "children" addendum, happen to describe the five main characters of the line (respectively Draculaura, Clawdeen, Cleo, Frankie and Lagoona).

And 10 more of the monsters mentioned are the parent(s) of minor characters.

The defunct Xevoz line had an undead faction (the "Unnaturals") that included vampires, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, and Frankenstein monsters in their ranks (the wolfman ended up in the "Meta-Beast" faction). And this isn't counting the insects, cyborg/robots, dragons, elemental forces of nature personified...

The last four paintings in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin all feature the classic movie monsters as the bosses of each area: a buried pyramid for Mummy Man, a chaotic circus for Medusa, the streets of London for the Werewolf, and a haunted academy for Frankenstein's Monster.

Darkstalkers is essentially a Monster Mash in fighting game form. Many classic Universal monsters are represented, including Felicia as one of the fairly obscure Cat People, in addition to later horror movie mainstays like Lord Raptor (zombie), Bishamon (ghostly samurai) and Pyron (alien).

The Disgaea series include a variety of fantasy staples like succubi, dragons, zombies, ghosts, and cat girls, many of which have class ranks named after various mythological creatures. Made more amusing in Disgaea 3 and Disgaea 4, where said monsters can be your school classmates or members of your political party, respectively.

The Council in City of Heroes have scientifically created (somehow) vampires and werewolves that can work together (though are rarely seen together at the same time). During the Halloween event, generic vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, witches and pumpkin people are all about as likely to spawn from Trick or Treating. Really.

The band Deuil from Pop N Music consists of a vampire, a werewolf and a mummy.

MadWorld has the Mad Castle level for this. The Mooks are zombies (but bandaged up like mummies); the first area's bosses are the Shamans, a pack of werewolves; the second area's boss is Frank, Frankenstein's Monster; and the last area's boss is Elise, somewhere between a succubus and a vampire.

The Sega coin-op Monster Bash (unrelated to either of the above two) has the hero using the power of a magic sword to defeat first Dracula, then Frankenstein's Monster, and finally Chameleon Man; defeat all three, and you get to do it again, at increased difficulty...

Planescape: Torment has a party that includes a hideously scarred immortal/regenerating human, a floating talking skull which is actually a damned soul, a part-demon girl with a tail, a succubus with pink bat wings, a githzerai (tall, thin, pointy-eared extraplanar humanoid), a malfunctioning clockwork robot, a perpetually burning man who is a living conduit to the Elemental Plane of Fire, and a ghost in a suit of armor.

Reading Blaster Mystery has a cycloptic alien (?) hero trying to foil Dr. Dabble's plot with the help of a ghost.

With the right expansion packs(particularly the Supernatural pack), you can turn The Sims into this. Your Sim family can be populated with vampires, werewolves, witches, fairies, and even mermaids.

In the Kingdom Hearts series, Sora, Donald and Goofy take on the form of monsters in Halloween Town. Of the trio, Sora becomes a vampire with an orange eyepatch, Donald becomes a mummy, and Goofy becomes a parody of Frankenstein's Monster. Their forms are very popular with the fandom.

So much, that a second set of forms for Monstropolis was added in Kingdom Hearts III, although only Sora's appearance is drastic, in that he becomes a werecat, with his right eye covered by his hair as a nod to his Halloween Town form.

Urban Rivals: The Nightmare clan is are expy's on half of the examples above, others are based off horror movie characters.

During a Solar Eclipse in Terraria, hordes of classical monsters attack on the surface, such as Reapers, Swamp Things, Frankenstein's Monsters, Vampires, and Cyclops Zombies. Pity there are no werewolves or skeletons, as they can only appear at night or underground respectively.

In the Data East game Death Brade, the fighters include a werewolf, a minotaur, a golem and even a fire-breathing dragon.

The Light Gun arcade After Dark has you playing as two bounty hunters going after various monsters.

The NES game Monster Party had a boy named Mark team up with a gargoyle named Bert to fight an assortment of monsters, including ghosts, dancing zombies, a minotaur, a gorgon, a man-eating plant, and a Giant Spider.

Brain Dead 13 has a young man named Lance Galahad hired by a Brain in a Jar named Dr. Nero Neurosis to fix his computer. To get out of paying for his services, Neurosis has his psychotic hunchbacked assistant Fritz try and kill Lance. Lance then must avoid Fritz's attempts at killing him and thwart Neurosis' scheme for world conquest while exploring Neurosis' castle and ends up running into other monsters along the way, including a Frankenstein's Monster named Moose and a curvaceous vampire named Vivi.

Omen Of Sorrow is an horror Fighting Game featuring Dracula (as an Tragic Monster), a werewolf, a mummy, a Frakenstein-kind golem, Quasimodo the Hunchback, Mr. Hyde having completely taken over Jekyll's body, a succubus, a headless horseman and an chaos goddess. The only human playable character is not fully human himself and risks becoming a monster.

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The pilot of The Fear Hole has the classic universal monsters as the first creatures to come out of the titular hole. Well, them and THE CREEPING COLON!. Whose film was shot into the sun.

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During the Storm of Souls arc in Dominic Deegan, the main characters are witness to a fight between an infernomancer and a werewolf. Donovan Deegan mentions that, in his day, they had a name for such fights: A Monster Mash.

Sluggy Freelance. The main character is currently a mook in the service of a supervillain, and has a sword powered by the blood of the innocent. He's good friends with an alien from a species that reproduces by destroying the host planet, a vampire, a witch, a psychotic Killer Rabbit, and a mad scientist. He also owns a zombie head on a stick. And he's one of the good guys. Ostensibly.

Bloody Urban has a main cast featuring a werewolf, a ghoul, and a vampire. Among the supporting characters are a Frankenstein, a mad scientist and her dinosaur sidekick, an invisible man, and a blob monster.

Monsterful has a world full of monsters of all kinds, from classic undead ones (zombies, vampires, ghosts) to mythological ones (gorgons, Loch Ness monsters, mummies), uncommon ones like ragdolls, golems and homunculi, and even some hybrid monsters (Zombpyre). The first chapter focuses on the Addams High All-Ghouls School.

Ow, my sanity is a pastiche of the Unwanted Harem set in the Chtulhu mythos, with the hapless guy getting the attention of several lovecraftian ladies. So far he has encountered the Kuudere Servitor Nancy, an unnamed shoggoth in the form of a young girl with hand mouths, the Sleeper of N'Kai (a Yandere frog-girl) and Cool Big Sis neighbour "Shubby".

Zebra Girl: The initial group is composed of one normal human (Crystal), a sorcerer (Jack), a demon (Sandra), an anthropomorphic rabbit (Sam), a werewolf (Wally), and a talking book (Tomie) who got a human form at some point. Later in the comic, Sandra's hometown attracts a lot of monsters, with now vampires, ghouls and other kinds of creatures roaming in the streets.

The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show episode "Who's Minding the Monster?" had Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy tasked with babysitting a werewolf baby for his vampire parents when the baby's usual Frankenstein monster babysitter wandered off.

The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "A Halloween Hassle in Dracula's Castle" had the gang find themselves at a Halloween party for real monsters (such as Frankenstein's monster, a werewolf, and the Invisible Man) being hosted by Dracula and his wife. The traditional "Scooby-Doo" Hoax was also inverted to an extent in that Scooby and the gang were hired by the monsters to defend them from the ghost of Van Helsing, who turns out to be Igor in disguise trying to scare away the monsters so he'd have the castle to himself.

Drak Pack, a short-lived Saturday Morning Cartoon from the 80s, features the teenaged descendants of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man joining forces to fight a Vincent Price-esque criminal mastermind and his henchpersons: a female vampire, a mummy, a toad-like hunchback and a fly/human hybrid.

The short-lived series Gravedale High had a vampire, a werewolf, a zombie, a gorgon, a mummy, a Frankenstein's monster, an invisible boy, and some sort of Igor-type being going to a monsters' high-school where one of the teachers is a human. Humorously enough, the vampire's name is Vinnie Stoker (His last name being a Shout-Out to Dracula author Bram Stoker) and the gorgon's name is Doozer (Short for "Medusa").

In the third season of Ben 10 we are introduced to monster-themed alien villains: a mummy, a werewolf, a Frankenstein monster, and a ghost. Of course, Ben gained the ability to turn into each of these himself (he actually had the ghost all along, but this was when the others debuted and were all made a group). These guys are all from the same star system - and at the end of Secret of the Omnitrix zombies from another planet in the same system (Anur Ormeron) are mentioned.

Ben 10: Omniverse devotes a plot arc to revisiting the premise, with the return of the Anurian villains and Ben's alien versions (including a new fifth monster alien, a vampire), unrelated horror villains and shoutouts to additional works.

The Dingbat and the Creeps segments of The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show feature a vampire dog, a living skeleton and a talking jack o'lantern.

The latter-day Looney Tunes cartoon "Night of the Living Duck" had Daffy Duck dreaming that he was a lounge singer in a club full of classic movie monsters, including Dracula, Frankestein's monster (with Bride), Wolfman, the Mummy, the Fly and Godzilla (all names changed to protect copyright, of course). He ends up singing (with the voice of Mel Torme) "Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives".

DuckTales (1987) had an episode with a collection of classic monsters (Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and Bride, Quasimodo, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Blob, The Mummy, and Ping Pong) booking a get-together at Scrooge's mansion before protesting a movie theater that Scrooge owned which played monster movies, saying that the movies gave them a bad name. Fortunately it turned out that the movies instead made them popular, and they happily accepted jobs as actors in more monster movies.

Quack Pack would later follow suit with the episode "The Boy Who Cried Ghost", which featured a vampire, a werewolf, a Frankenstein's monster Valkyrie, and a ghost.

Dracula would later be a recurring character. And as it turns out, his son married a Mummy, and the two had Irwin, making him a mummy-vampire.

The Simpsons briefly features this in its parody of The Shining, when Homer is released from the pantry. Unlike in the original film (which kept things somewhat ambiguous), Homer is blatantly dragged out by Moe's ghost, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Dracula, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, and Freddy Krueger. They also appeared in a deleted scene showing them hiding in the rooms watching Bart.

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had this happen in the Halloween Episode "Nightmare in Retroville", where he creates a machine that makes people look like monsters and uses it to turn Carl into a vampire and Sheen into a werewolf. Things go awry when Jimmy's dad Hugh later uses the machine to accidentally turn himself into Frankenstein's monster and Sheen and Carl become a werewolf and a vampire for real and manage to turn Libby and Cindy. Jimmy saves the day by using his machine to turn into Hugh's favorite monster Octopus Man.

Popeye and Son episode "There Goes the Neighborhood" has a Monster Mash mix with Creepy Family. A new family in town ends to be made of a vampire Dracula-like father, a mummy mother, a Frankenstein monster-like grandpa and their only werewolf son. How this makes sense genetically... who knows?

The Superhero Squad Show had this in the episode "This Man-Thing, This Monster!", where Iron Man worked with the Supernatural Hero Squad (whose members included Werewolf By Night and Man-Thing) and fought against Dracula and an army of Living Mummies. Cameos are also made by Frankenstein's Monster and the Zombie.

The Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "The Bride of Dracula!" pitted Spider-Man, Iceman, and Firestar against Dracula, a robotic Frankenstein monster, and a werewolf butler.

In Ultimate Spider-Man, the Howling Commandoes consisted of Werewolf By Night, Frankenstein's monster, the Living Mummy, Man-Thing, and Max the Invisible Man.

The OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Parents Day" reveals that Enid is part of a family of monsters, with herself being a witch, her father being a werewolf, her mother being a vampire, and younger twin brothers who are a Frankenstein's Monster and a Pumpkin Person. The Season 2 episode "Monster Party" guest-stars the Ghoul School girls mentioned above in the "Films — Animation" folder, who happen to be old friends of Enid.

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop is about a Mad Scientist named Dr. Sidney Zitbag who runs a pet shop specializing in monster pets. He is assisted by a skeletal dog named Horrifido as well as a zombie bunny named Zombunny and frequently tries to win the affections of the vampire twins the Exorsisters.

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